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Royal Blood tease new single ‘Typhoons’ and announce vinyl release
Royal Blood have announced plans to release another single from their forthcoming third album next week. READ MORE: Royal Blood tell us about ‘Trouble’s Coming’ and their new album: “We’re seeing in colour for the first time” The track ‘Typhoons’ will be made available on 7” from January 22 and can be pre-ordered here now. The band teased 19 seconds of the new single on social media earlier today (January 15) – listen below. It follows Royal Blood’s previous single ‘Trouble’s Coming’, which marked the duo’s first new material since their 2017 album ‘How Did We Get So Dark?. We've...
Idris Elba looks back to look ahead with new ‘Gospel 21’ freestyle
Idris Elba has shared a new end of year freestyle called ‘Gospel 21’ – watch the track’s video below. Read more: Friends Like These: Rising rapper Che Lingo talks life and music with his label boss Idris Elba Sharing news of the new record on Twitter, the talented actor, writer and musician said he penned ‘Gospel 21’ on New Year’s Eve and has only now decided to release it. “I wrote this on 31 December 2020 and decided to put it out now,” he wrote. “Forget all the maybes, bring on the ‘might as wells’.” Advertisement Recounting some of...
Watch Channel 4’s Jon Snow perform TikTok’s viral Sea Shanty craze
Channel 4 news presenter Jon Snow has shared a clip of himself performing TikTok‘s viral Sea Shanty craze. Royal Mail worker Nathan Evans became a viral hit on the social media app in December, where his performances of the traditional sailor songs garnered millions of views. Nathan’s biggest hit came in the form of the New Zealand folk song ‘The Wellerman’ – which has been viewed a staggering 4.3 million times. Advertisement Now, Snow has posted his own version of the song on Twitter with the caption: “Sea shanties! Bringing us in the Pandemic together as never before!” You...
Dua Lipa says she doesn’t have an alter ego: “It’s hard for me to make stories up”
Dua Lipa has discussed alter egos in a new interview, stating that she doesn’t possess one when she performs. Read more: Dua Lipa live at Studio 2054: a big night in with a pop great who excels at escapism The singer said that unlike artists such as Beyoncé, Eminem and David Bowie, she doesn’t slip into another personality when on stage. “I don’t have two personas, an alter ego for who goes onstage,” Lipa told Rolling Stone. “I’ve never had that issue, figuring out, ‘I’m going to be this character today, or this is who I’m going to play, or this...
Listen to Ed Sheeran’s remix of Passenger’s ‘Sword From The Stone’
Passenger has shared a remix of new song ‘Sword From The Stone’, produced by Ed Sheeran – listen to it below. Read more: Songs you probably didn’t know were written by Ed Sheeran Written during lockdown, the original song is the opening track on Passenger’s (real name Michael Rosenberg) new album, ‘Songs For The Drunk And Broken Hearted’. Now, the singer-songwriter has released a remixed version by Sheeran called the ‘Gingerbread Mix’. Advertisement “Ed was really excited about the song when I played it to him and suggested that he produce a version that could potentially work as a radio single,”...
Backstreet Boys’ Kevin Richardson posts cryptic tweet about “losing a friend to QAnon” after bandmate Brian joins Parler
Backstreet Boys‘ Kevin Richardson has posted a cryptic tweet about losing “a best friend to QAnon”. Read more: “We’re the Rolling Stones of pop”: Backstreet Boys talk 25 years in music The singer shared a Cosmopolitan article that details a first-hand account of losing a friendship due to the conspiracy theory-driven beliefs of a QAnon member which he captioned: “an interesting read”. It comes just days after bandmate Brian Littrell created an account on right wing social media platform Parler, which he set up in the wake of Donald Trump being banned from social media platforms for his comments about...
Rage Against The Machine share documentary on race called ‘Killing In Thy Name’
Rage Against The Machine have shared a short documentary on race called Killing In Thy Name – watch it below. Read more: The roots of… Rage Against The Machine Released in collaboration with international artists collective The Ummah Chroma, the film follows a teacher as he educates a group of small children on the history of oppression in the United States. “The following is a document of true events,” an intro to Killing In Thy Name reads. “Our aim is for this piece to be a fire escape from the fiction known as whiteness and a spring for discovery. Remember,...
J.Lo At 20: Celebrating The Album That Made Jennifer Lopez An Icon
By Yasmine Shemesh When Jennifer Lopez began recording her sophomore album, J.Lo, in 2000, she was in the midst of an incredible career high. With a $1 million salary for 1997’s Selena, she’d become the highest-paid Latina actress in Hollywood history and had no less than three new movies in the works. “Waiting for Tonight,” her dance-infused 1999 single, had become an anthem for the new millennium and was nominated for a Grammy. And she was about to make fashion history, thanks to a certain plunging Versace dress. In hindsight, given how long she’s been a multihyphenate, Lopez’s early ambidextrousness wasn’t...
Grime artist Solo 45 has sentence increased for imprisoning and raping four women
Andy Anokye, the former Boy Better Know artist who performed as Solo 45, has had his prison sentence increased by six years. The rapper was previously found guilty of 30 charges at a trial at Bristol Crown Court last year, including 21 counts of rape, five counts of false imprisonment, two counts of assault by penetration and two of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. All the offences listed were committed between February 2015 and March 2017. At the time, he was sentenced to 24 years in prison and five on licence. However, following a new hearing, the Court of Appeal...Recent Posts
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